{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 253/1915-09-12/p038","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This attitude is crucial, my friends, and once we have really acquired it, it will prevent us from doing anything foolish in our efforts to enter the spiritual world. It doesn't require any particular effort to eat salt for a week in an attempt to descend to sub-earthly realms, and then eat no salt for a week in an attempt to ascend into higher elemental realms. That takes no effort at all, but there is also nothing to be gained from it except the worst kinds of illusions. Inner work is the only way to really accomplish something in the spiritual world. And inner work, if it is really taking place, will by its very nature lead you to the right thoughts and keep you from getting into trouble with regard to the spiritual world. Without it, however, we are subject to perversions of mystical thinking, and people have every right to laugh at us then.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. Swedenborg: An Example of Difficulties in Entering the Spiritual World","site_heading":null,"date":"1915-09-12","location":null,"word_count":156,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/253/1915-09-12/p038","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Catherine E. 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Und diese Gesinnung, wenn wir sie wirklich haben, meine lieben Freunde, sie bringt uns los von allem Unfugtreiben gegenüber dem Eindringen in die geistige Welt. Nicht wahr, anstrengen braucht man sich nicht sonderlich, wenn man eine Woche Salz ißt, um hinunterzusteigen in die unterirdischen Welten, und eine andere Woche kein Salz ißt, um hinaufzusteigen in die höheren elementarischen Welten. Dazu braucht man keine Anstrengung; aber man erlangt auch nichts dadurch, als höchstens die allerschlimmsten Illusionen. Erlangen kann man in der geistigen Welt nur wirklich etwas durch innere Arbeit. Und innere Arbeit, wenn sie wirklich vorhanden ist, ist schon durch sich selbst so beschaffen, daß sie einen nicht dazu verleitet, Unfug zu treiben gegenüber der geistigen Welt, sondern sie bringt einen auf richtige Gedanken. Sonst aber kommen wirklich die mystischen und verkehrten Gedanken, und man kann mit Recht über uns lachen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":149,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/253/1915-09-12/p035"}],"english":["GA 253/1915-09-12/p038"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":149,"en_words":156,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5107,"original_word_count":4883,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Catherine E. 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